Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Toi Derricotte |
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Birthdate | April 12, 1941 |
Birth Place | Hamtramck, MI |
Age (in 2024) | 83 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Poet |
Toi Derricotte is best known as Poet who has born on April 12, 1941 in Hamtramck, MI. Currently, Toi Derricotte is 83 years, 6 months and 25 days old. Toi Derricotte will celebrate 84th birthday on Saturday, 12th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Toi Derricotte upcoming birthday.
African-American poet and creative writing professor whose poetry collections include Captivity, Tender, and The Undertaker's Daughter. She also published an autobiographical poetic work entitled The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey.
She moved to New York City in 1967 and subsequently received a master's degree in English literature from New York University.
She was deeply affected by childhood visits to her grandparents' house, which doubled as a funeral parlor.
Her father was a Kentucky native, and her mother was of Louisiana Creole heritage. Derricotte gave birth to an illegitimate child in 1962, while she was a student at Wayne State University.
Her poetic style is similar to that of Anne Sexton and other confessional poets.
Toi Derricotte is 83 years old today.
Toi Derricotte was born on April 12, 1941 in Hamtramck, MI.
Toi Derricotte zodiac sign is Aries.
Toi Derricotte was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Toi Derricotte's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. |
1980 | The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed. |
1980 | Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed. |
1980 | Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF |
1981 | The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. |
1983 | Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago. |
1990 | Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. |
1992 | The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris. |
1999 | United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred. |
2002 | A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104. |
2007 | A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. |
2009 | Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency. |
2010 | Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28. |
2013 | Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali. |
2014 | The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes. |
1991 | The birth of Oliver Norwood, English born Northern Irish international footballer |
1991 | The birth of Magnus Pääjärvi, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Jazz Richards, Welsh international footballer |
1992 | The birth of Chad le Clos, South African swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Robin Anderson, American tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer |
1994 | The birth of Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress |
1994 | The birth of Oh Sehun, South Korean musician |
1994 | The birth of Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer |
1994 | The birth of Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer |
1995 | The birth of Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Matteo Berrettini, Italian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Pierre Autin-Grenier, French author and poet (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Pierre-Henri Menthéour, French cyclist (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1990) |
2014 | The death of Hal Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Billy Standridge, American race car driver (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Paulo Brossard, Brazilian jurist and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Patrice Dominguez, Algerian-French tennis player and trainer (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Alfred Eick, German commander (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of André Mba Obame, Gabonese politician (b. 1957) |
2016 | The death of Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Mohammad Al Gaz, Emirati politician & diplomat (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (b. 1959) |
2020 | The death of Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (b. 1983) |
2021 | The death of Joseph Siravo, American actor and producer (b. 1955) |
2022 | The death of Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1955) |
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